[mythtv-users] Myth on XBOX 360!

[Kichigai Mentat]

On Mar 19, 2006, at 14.59, casey dunn wrote:

> music only..
> http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/devices.html#media-players
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephbu/sets/1637080/

Progress is progress! :)

>
> Check out Transcode360 for some background on why this isn't easy.   
> (short story: Just because it plays in MCE doesn't mean the 360  
> will play it)
> http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=497340

Doesn't the 360 require everything to be transcoded to WMV before  
playback? And does "everything" include MPEG-2? Because, it would  
kind of suck to have to have your Myth system transcode all your  
recordings just to watch them. The loss of quality, oh the humanity!  
And I could only imagine what kind of power this would take for high- 
def recordings.

>
> Projects are getting there though...
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gmediaserver-devel/2006-01/ 
> msg00009.html

Totally nifty. Though I imagine making Myth masquerade about as  
WinXPMCE is going to take a lot of work before it reaches  
functionality near what a dedicated front-end can do. Does MCE do  
commercial flagging? And I bet the commercial flags are a bit  
different from those of Myth. Still, not to say this is a worthless  
experiment. I'd love to see what these guys could come up with.

I hate to be a formatting nazi, but please don't top-post. In cases  
such as these, it was a little confusing if you were replying to me  
or not. Just try to do some in-line reply.

>
> On 3/19/06, Kichigai Mentat <kichigai at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > stirring this one back up because I found an xbox 360!  The 360  
> has a
> > media interface for talking to PCs running MCE.  Is this really just
> > uPNP with some sort of signature?  It would be excellent to be  
> able to
> > trick the 360 into thnking the backend was an MCE box.
> Wouldn't that require the use of Microsoft code? As far as I'm aware
> (and it is possible I'm wrong) no one has MythTV speaking WinXP MCE,
> and I don't know if anyone knows how to do it yet (except Microsoft)

I stand corrected on the limitations.
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